Friday: 4PM - on

train

Dearest Love:

This morning I opened my shade - and there was snow! Not a great deal, but enough to cover the ground with a soft white puff, about which was sagebrush covered with frost. It was beautiful. Now we are on the Wyoming plains - just beyond Laramie.

On this route & the S.P. there are tents and soldiers at all the tunnels - like Milton. In S.F. harbor there are battleships, and many cars loaded with guns, tanks, airplanes. The army and navy have taken over many docks.

I have a good breakfast but not lunch - we lose 2 hours today, so I can wait till dinner time. I have been reading applications and also the Sat. Eve. Post.

There are several women in the car, some one or two with a child. I asked one if she had just crossed the Pacific, & she said yes, from Hawaii. I asked if she was in Honolulu on Dec. 7, and she said yes, at Schofield Barracks. She didn't say anymore; and although I would have liked to hear more I didn't ask. I supposed they have been told not to say anything.

I got my wire off to Thorfin, who will probably meet me at 9 ³⁰ . Then on to New York at 2 ³⁰ .

Addis remembered that he had got a letter from Ralston, but he had lost it; so he wrote asking what had been in the letter.

Addis is to have a two-months Eastern trip March 7-May, under the Commonwealth Found ⁿ . I said that you & I would see him about Feb. 22.

I asked about paying him. He said he didn't charge fellow doctors, that [he didn't charge] Stanford professors, [that he didn't charge] clergymen, [that] he got a lot out of me, [that] he had asked me to come, and [that he] charged only to get rid of uninteresting patients.

I wore my longies last night, and was warm enough.

Much love to my little darling.

Linus